Local folders in Android version

[SCr]

It would be nice if the local folders could also be linked in the Android app. Then you wouldn't have to boot up your laptop to move the mails to the local folders.

[Jon]

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[MikeYates]

This is vital for importing mail to Gmail, which happily exports to mbox format but only imports by an old unstable and unsupported POP3 method. Thunderbird has long been commonly used for this and now needed on Android.

[geraldco]

As my email inbox is only 1GB of size, I move important mails to local folders to keep them.
On Thunderbird for Desktop this works very well. 
The local folder is transfered with nextcloud to all my devices. 
Unfortunately on my android phone I can not integrate this folder to browse all my mails.

[wsm]

What you are really asking for, is a shared storage space.  That's what imap is for.

As for "local folders", on a technical level I don't quite see how this would work as you described, in part because the very point of local folders is that it is local to ONE device.  

[SCr]

The "local folders" can be stored on IMAP, but I would also like to be able to store and open the emails on my smartphone in the "local folders". With Outlook, which I have at work, this is also possible. The "local folders" are displayed on the company laptop and company smartphone, and I can store or open the emails with both devices.

[booma1]

Before I make a comment, a question!

Is a difference seen between Archive and Local Folders, from a functional perspective? I take there is from an operational perspective.

Point being that as WSM notes Local folders means just that, to your one and local, I have mine on my floptop and at the mo only accessible on that device.

However, I also use the same storage for Archive, which is meant to be a "longer term out of the way" storage, where as Local is supposed to be on your main and one device only. Archive could be configured to store remotely (and so be accessible to otehr devices) and therefore be a pseudo "Local Folder" in terminology.

Personnaly I do not like the "cloud" approach, remote storage.

This also raises the question about "syncronizing" TB Android, because unlike Firefox which uses a central repository for all FF stuff, emails can be on a number of different servers, making sync impossible